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Frontier adds Memphis, Charlotte; expands Trenton base

Frontier Airlines will continue its expansion at its new focus city at Trenton N.J. and will add the cities of Charlotte and Memphis to its route map. The carrier announced today it will add nonstop service

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Frontier Airlines will continue its expansion at its new focus city at Trenton N.J. and will add Charlotte and Memphis to its route map.

The carrier announced today it will add nonstop service between Trenton and two new cities: Cincinnati and Charlotte. Both routes will begin Feb. 12. Frontier will fly four Airbus A319 flights a week to Charlotte and three each week to Cincinnati. Frontier already serves Cincinnati from its main hub in Denver.

Frontier also will add nonstop service to Memphis from its Denver hub. The Memphis route will launch March 7, with Frontier offering four flights a week on Airbus A319s. Frontier previously flew to Memphis for a brief period in 2007, but pulled out of the market in 2008 after filing for bankruptcy, according to WREG TV of Memphis.

As for Trenton, the new routes to Charlotte and Cincinnati will give Frontier a total of 11 nonstop destinations from the New Jersey airport. The others are: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago Midway, Columbus (Ohio), Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers (Fla.), Orlando, Raleigh-Durham and Tampa.

Brian Hughes, the top official of Trenton's home county of Mercer, lauded the new routes.

"By adding these new routes to Charlotte, N.C. and Cincinnati, Ohio, Frontier continues to strengthen its network for travelers in the Mercer County region, going from 9 destinations to 11," Hughes says in a release.

"As we gear up for the grand re-opening of an improved Trenton-Mercer Airport on Nov. 8, we eagerly welcome back Frontier, its loyal customers and all those who are excited to fly Frontier at Trenton-Mercer," Hughes says.

Frontier is the only airline operating commercial passenger flights from the Trenton-Mercer Airport, which sits just about 30 miles from Center City Philadelphia and about 65 from lower Manhattan,. The airport is positioned in the populous I-95 corridor where the northern Philadelphia suburbs blend with the New Jersey suburbs near New York City.

"This gives our passengers another entry point into the Philadelphia, Newark and Allentown markets," CVG airport CEO Candace McGraw says to The Cincinnati Enquirer. "This is another positive step in growing our local passenger base."